The Limits Of Hospitality – OpEd
I wonder if anyone has looked at the crisis surrounding illegal, virtually unchecked immigration in the US, UK, and European
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Author: Bert Olivier
Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, Literature, cinema, architecture and Aesthetics. His current project is 'Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.'
Articles by Bert Olivier :
Why No Justice For Shot Victims? – OpEd
I have previously wondered whether the recent (and continuing) revelations about the Covid injections’ death toll would bring any justice. Given the rapidly
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Gramsci, Hegemony, And The World Order – OpEd
Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher, is easily underestimated with regard to what his intellectual legacy can teach us in the
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Technocracy, Fear-Mongers, And The Conspiracy – OpEd
The term, ‘conspiracy theory’ became part of common parlance during the ‘Covid era,’ but although all of us know what
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Is Peace Possible Today? – OpEd
In this Christmas season, with its connotations of peace and goodwill to all people, and the New Year, when one
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War, Revolution, And Ambition – OpEd
There are several wars happening in the world at present – those in the Middle East, the one in Ukraine,
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The Philosophy Of Provisionality – OpEd
Everything we do as humans is provisional. Because of time’s eroding power, everything is revisable. There is a reason for
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Gattaca’s Warning Against Vaccine Passports – OpEd
Gattaca, the 1997 dystopian science fiction film by Andrew Niccol, was prescient. It anticipated the inauguration of a newly class-stratified
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Complex Systems And The US Election – OpEd
With the US presidential election mere days away, American citizens first and foremost – but also people in other countries,
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Dissent: Gaps In The Regime – OpEd
At certain times in history, sometimes protracted events have occurred that demonstrated the power of dissent – that (as far as we
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